Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Putting an element in rheme position means that it is part of what the speaker has to say , and that is the very core of any message .
2 Oh , yes , yes , but there there was certainly a time when , er universities , schools and even business companies , thought that it was part of their erm , their way of supporting society in general , that they gave time to go out and give talks .
3 I was famous at 18 so knew early on that it was part of my job description . ’
4 It came at him again , and he could just make out that it was part of his bunk , one of the side panels .
5 It 's produced by Christian Aid and it 's part of its Christian Aid week 's activity .
6 We will know by the first of April this year rather more than we know at the moment but you 're right it can go up and down , but there are lots of budgets in Social Services which are subject to this and it 's part of our job to try and manage that during the course of the year .
7 my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat
8 This qualitativeness — the ‘ manifest image of the world ’ — is irreducibly connected with what experience is subjectively like , and it is part of what is lost if consciousness is analysed away or otherwise abandoned .
9 It is ‘ making allowances ’ that is difficult , but bear in mind that the doctor does see parents who are genuinely harming their children , either mentally or physically , and it is part of his or her job to consider all the possibilities in every case .
10 China is using every negotiating device , and it is master of them all , to carve out as big a place for itself as it can in pre-1997 Hong Kong .
11 I really wanted to help them out and pointed them in the direction of Red Rhino and it was kind of their idea to put them out on Reception .
12 erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis
13 But meanwhile the OK Corral continued , and it was keeper of her own wild troop of horses , whom she knew how to handle , unlike some of the sharpshooters and champions and wildmen exhibiting their prowess .
14 I 've had erm on two separate Sundays I 've had volunteers to come and help but and my son-in-law made a silt trap , and the Water Board erm made the sluice gate , because it goes into their stream , and it was part of their responsibility .
15 He liked comfort and it was part of his image .
16 Yeah , but it depends what , how it takes , what form it takes if he 's if it 's sort of their others are of similar ability , okay , but if it 's because , if people do n't take any notice of him because of
17 On the other hand , if it was part of something bigger … ’
18 In 1988 a visiting colleague from the Royal Ulster Constabulary asked if it was part of my role in Systems Development Department to comment on such essays .
19 ‘ But it 's not right , ’ said Lydia Horton , looking around the dreary little back-street surgery in the least attractive part of Oswaldston as if it were part of her grievance .
20 Therefore I am not able to suggest to you , and have n't been able to in my evidence which district even a new settlement er ought to go in , but I have to say that if it were part of your deliberations that you should choose a particular district , er then it is not part of my submission that you should not choose a particular district , but my bottom line is that the policy wording should at least ensure that there is commitment to a new settlement and it is inescapable on behalf of the district planning authorities , the last thing that we would want is the possibility of going round the districts , and the last one to produce a district wide plan is the one that has to get the new settlement , that seems to be a gen , fairly unsatisfactory way of proceeding , and each one should have to consider that as part of their certification process .
21 It annoys old ladies in Brighton , but it is proof of their essential good sense … families are impoverished but the family system has not broken up .
22 Yeah but it 's part of their
23 But it 's part of it . ’
24 But it was hatred of myself that drove me , not love of dancing .
25 A graphic artists ' cutting board will cost a lot for the large size required so , unless it is part of your daily function , forget it .
26 So some horses are unfriendly because it is part of their genetic makeup , and other horses are unfriendly due to lack of proper handling when they are young .
27 I can not change my feeling because it is part of my upbringing — I feel that the English culture is being swamped .
28 I will reply a little more freely , because you are who you are ; and because it is Gustave of whom I speak .
29 D : Well I do n't think you 're ever going to get it except by civil disobedience because it 's part of what a government 's all about , they have to defend the country .
30 I do n't know , I do n't know , er , I , I , I 'm not really up into this , but for example , the reason that McDonald 's uses red , is because it 's part of their culture of being classed in an so if you used green .
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